Clouds of Mosquitos
We grilled pizza tonight, after returning from a long and crazy weekend at the Brule. Straight out of Frank Sinatra's "It's Very Nice to Go Travelin'" -- light the home fires/make a pizza.



So after we'd eaten ourselves silly, I went out to the garage to put the grill away. Right away, I heard this low buzzing, almost like a motor or a faraway engine. I looked around and finally saw this:



Now clearly, this doesn't look like much, but in my 39 years on this planet, I've never seen this kind of thing before. Pretty sure this is a very recent, very large hatch of baby mosquitos, forming vortices of themselves in the skies above our homes. Pretty crazy. Hundreds of thousands, probably millions of baby skeets, for your summering pleasure. Nothing to fear, they're not biting yet. All the same, I hope the bats are hungry and feeding well tonight.
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